Canker

[pythonkisses]

hello all

As you all know am getting my first python soon and i have been reading and reading heaps of books etc i was reading this one book and it had Canker in it?

Now What is CANKER :roll: and how does the snake get it can it be fixed?


This book i have has a great parts on mites etc which is great for me now i know what to look for when getting my snake/s


Cheers
Pk :wink:

[Sdaji]

I've heard so much about canker, but almost nothing first hand. I haven't heard of anyone having a snake with canker for a few years now, even second hand stories. Maybe people just don't want to discuss it with me! I heard of one person curing it really quickly with listerine, which is what I'd do if I ever had a snake with it.

If you've read about it you should have a reasonable idea of what it is, a mouth disease caused by infection etc etc

[pythonkisses]

Hi Ya

I just looked it up online wow yucko hope mine dont get it when i get them soon as i find an enclosure lol that helps.

So i take it no one on here has or had a snake with it how did you or they fix it?


Cheers
PK

[africancichlidau]

I AM NOT PK!! Oh , sorry, you said CANKER

[Sdaji]

lol afro

[NCHERPS]

Canker is the cheese like substance that comes with Mouth rot, as Sdjai said, I haven't heard of anyone's snake getting it for years, but it must still happen from time to time.

Many years ago in the UK I got a few WC snakes in that had it, it is a secondary disease which comes about after damage to the mouth of the snake, it usually comes with a great deal of inflamation and redness around the jaw line inside the mouth, then progresses to the canker, which I believe to be destroyed tissue.
Bad cases left unchecked can progress right down the throat of the snake, eventually leading to swollen imflamed area's, at this stage it will stop your snake from feeding and lead to death if left.
They can also get it from persitant rubbing around the face due to mites or respiratory illnesses.

The treatment I used very successfully was a diluted 1:4 of Hydrogen peroxide/water from the Pharmacy, and removal of canker daily, generally they lose a few teeth to.
I would do this every day until completely cleared up, offering no food until the animal was 100% again.

As I said a rare thing nowadays, due to better husbandry knowledge.

Neil

[pythonkisses]

Originally Posted by africancichlidau

I AM NOT PK!! Oh , sorry, you said CANKER

i would never call you that sweetie

[pythonkisses]

Thanks guys i feel better now so many things are going in and out of my head these days am still tryin to work out this report book i got with my permit lol


Thanks again big kisses to all

PK

[africancichlidau]

Well PK remember to ask all your questions BEFORE ya guests get legless at the BBQ then you should have all the intricacies nice and clear in ya head

[hugsta]

I am sure there will be many ppl to answer all of you Q's PK including filling out your book...

[pythonkisses]

looks like am the only one not drinking Awwwwwwwwwwww

its my birthday and still cant get legless

so someone has to drink for me i pick hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????????


i have a spare bed to here if someone wants to sleep
or the hotel up the road like 5 mins away have room starting for $19 a night or something like that i can find out anyhow............

[rodentrancher]

Well there u go! I only thought that pigeons got Canker! Dave has pigeons that he breeds for $10,000 Classic Homing Pigeon Races. Well yeah he's already won $1200 last season. So that's good eh? I just didn't realise that other animals got it as well(Canker ie) Dave has some sort of medication that he can use for Canker(you would have to ask him).

[Hix]

Originally Posted by pythonkisses

looks like am the only one not drinking Awwwwwwwwwwww

...

I'm driving PK, so I won't be drinking either. We can sit together and laugh at the others staggering around in the bra's and g's ........





Hix

Originally Posted by "Hix

I'm driving PK, so I won't be drinking either. We can sit together and laugh at the others staggering around in the bra's and g's ........





Hix

That is such a funny, but possibly true thought!!!

[peterescue]

Canker is really just a blanket term to cover any infection to the mouth of reptiles. As someone already said, if left untreated it can spread throughout the lining tissue of the mouth and throat and kill the infected animal. It needs to be treated with antibiotics, daily treatment and scupulous husbandry practices